January 20, 2014:<\/p>\n
Okay, back to classical — “Eighteenth-Century Italian Harpsichord Music,” by Luciano Sgrizzi. Nonesuch, of course.<\/p>\n
There are a couple of faint scratches, and just enough warping that I had to cue it up by hand instead of using the turntable’s automatic systems, but mostly it’s clean and clear.<\/p>\n
Audacity crashed twice while I was transferring it, though.<\/p>\n
Still, it’s done, and it’s good.<\/p>\n
January 21, 2014:<\/p>\n
Followed by “Quartet Music of the 17th & 18th Centuries,” by the Stuyvesant String Quartet, 1966.<\/p>\n
Don’t know what to say about it.<\/p>\n
January 22, 2014:<\/p>\n
And now “Baroque Music for Recorders,” by the Concentus Musicus of Denmark, 1965.<\/p>\n
This is an interesting one because it starts out with a dozen assorted “dances” — honestly, some I think are too short to actually dance to, being under forty seconds — which are simple and straightforward, and then it gradually works through fancier stuff until it finishes up with a sonata for recorder, oboe, violin, harpsichord, and bass by Fasch that’s quite complex and beautiful.<\/p>\n
I ran into a problem trying to MP3ize it — there’s a gap in the data, for some reason, between the third and fourth movements of a Handel sonata, so that it crashed repeatedly when I tried to do that bit. I eventually wound up working backward from the end of the album for everything after the bad spot, and that worked — the missing chunk is from the three-second break between tracks, not the actual music, so I was able to work around it and just not transfer those three seconds.<\/p>\n
Don’t know how that gap happened. I get an error message, “Missing data,” when I try to play that stretch, and then Audacity freezes and I have to reboot it.<\/p>\n
January 23, 2014:<\/p>\n
Julie thinks I’m insane to bother copying this one: “Environments Disc 1,” by Syntonic Research, 1970.<\/p>\n
One side is thirty minutes of seashore ambiance; the other side is chirping birds.<\/p>\n
Audacity crashed the first time I tried, but the second attempt worked fine.<\/p>\n
January 24, 2014:<\/p>\n
“Four Centuries of Music for the Harp.” Back to Nonesuch. Nice stuff.<\/p>\n
January 25, 2014:<\/p>\n
“In A Medieval Garden.” Which is nominally by a lute ensemble, but in fact some pieces have recorders, krummhorns, viols, or even percussion in the lead. It’s a surprisingly varied collection, really, with a couple of fun, bouncy numbers mixed in with the more contemplative stuff.<\/p>\n
It’s deliberately mostly secular music, from the 12th through the 16th centuries.<\/p>\n
I like this one — but it’s really short; only about twenty-eight minutes for both sides together.<\/p>\n
January 26, 2014:<\/p>\n
Josquin des Prez’s “Missa Ave Maris Stella” and Four Motets, by the University of Illinois Chamber Choir.<\/p>\n
I went through a brief period of fascination with Josquin des Prez, and how he fell between medieval and renaissance styles; this was one of the two albums I bought during that period. (The other is coming up soon.)<\/p>\n
It’s lovely, but seems pretty conventional compared to the “Medieval Garden” record.<\/p>\n
No problems recording or editing it.<\/p>\n
January 26, 2014: (From this point on it wasn’t unusual to do more than one in a day.)<\/i><\/p>\n
“Voices of the Middle Ages,” by Capella Antiqua of Munich. Well-done but largely undistinguished church vocal music from the 13th through 15th centuries.<\/p>\n
I had a weird problem with this one — Audacity crashed repeatedly when I tried to play back track 8, “Der Tag ist so freudenreich,” after converting tracks 1-7 to MP3. So I started working back-to-front, from track 20 backward, and when I did it that way track 8 worked just fine. Audacity can be very quirky.<\/p>\n
There’s some surface noise on this one; I played it a few times when it was new, and not on a really good system. Mostly it’s fine, though.<\/p>\n
January 27, 2014:<\/p>\n
And now I’ve squared away the other Josquin Desprez album, “Chansons, Frottole & Instrumental Pieces.” It’s a rather scattered collection, but good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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